2016-04-15 21:54 GMT+02:00 Cole Robinson <crobi...@redhat.com>: > Hi all, > > There's a few old hypervisor drivers in the tree that haven't been actively > maintained for a long time. I'm curious if anyone knows of these drivers being > actively used. If not I think we should consider dropping them > > > src/phyp/ : for power VM hypervisor. Added in July 2009. The last commit that > looks like it wasn't either internal API conversion, or caught by code > analysis, is: > > commit 41461ff7f7d6ee6679aae2a8004e305c5830c9e8 > Author: Eduardo Otubo <ot...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Date: Tue Apr 19 12:34:08 2011 -0300 > > PHYP: Adding reboot domain function > > Adding reboot <domain> function for pHyp driver. > > Nearly 5 years ago. Eduardo is the primary driver author too (CCd at his email > from github). > > Searching the upstream bug tracker for all bugs with 'phyp', the only one > that's actually about the phyp driver is a report from 2 years ago that it > crashes trying to open a connection: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093094
I developed this driver as per internal IBM project's request. I left IBM in 2014 and I really don't know if anyone uses this feature (internally or not) anymore. I'll try to check it out and get back to this thread as soon as I have some info. Regards, > > > src/xenapi/: Connecting to a xen api server. Added in March 2010. Largely > appears to be a code drop, the original author/committer has never had another > commit. The last xenapi specific commit seems to be: > > commit 484460ec4678a264c5e7355495c2f0da72cb42bd > Author: Matthias Bolte <matthias.bo...@googlemail.com> > Date: Thu Jul 21 15:16:11 2011 +0200 > > xenapi: Improve error reporting in xenapiOpen once again > > Nearly 5 years ago. The only upstream bug that was filed about xenapi is: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711372 > > Which was about a connection failure that was eventually fixed upstream, and > dovetailed into the above referenced commit. Current xen guys, you know of > anyone using this? > > > src/hyperv/: Added in July 2011. This was largely a code drop as well; > committed and patched a few times by Matthias but it was a university project > by someone else. Last hyperv targeted patch was: > > commit 9e9ea3ead9825bd1dc2c17cea4abc8c4165591d0 > Author: Matthias Bolte <matthias.bo...@googlemail.com> > Date: Sun Sep 9 17:39:40 2012 +0200 > > hyperv: Fix and improve hypervListAllDomains > > The driver is fairly minimal as well: it can only list existing VMs and > perform lifecycle operations. It can't create new VMs, and doesn't list VM > device config AFAICT. > > > Also, in general, I've never heard about anyone _actually_ using any of those > drivers in the wild. There's reports here and there but it mostly sounds like > people trying them out. Just an anecdote so take it with a grain of salt > > - Cole -- otubo -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list